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Viking1066
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Yes sir!!
Elvis
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This reminds me of a story my mom told me. She worked in the accounting department of a factory that made things from aluminum. Anything. Appliances, car parts, anything, as long as it was aluminum. Sometimes, the girls would go up on the catwalk during a break, and watch the guys working on the assembly line. After the war started, they weren't allowed to do that anymore. One time, Mom and one of her co-workers snuck out there anyway. I asked what she saw, and she said looked like airplane wings.Rare photo of an assembly line for the Yokosuka D4Y "Suisei" (彗星, Suisei, "Comet"; Allied reporting name "Judy") carrier-based dive bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Osaka Japan, 1940's.
MiTasol
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No - it is an all metal LICENCE BUILT Douglas DC-3, not a wooden "copy". All metal refers to the structure - control surfaces, like the DC-3, were metal framed with fabric covering.
And the props were licence built Hamilton Standard props.
The engines were a totally Japanese design.
As far as I am aware there never was a wooden DC-3 that was actually produced though one was designed.
To quote wiki As many as 20 ... featured wooden rudders, stabilizers, ailerons, fins, elevators and entrance doors.
Viking1066
Major
Also true: Towards the end of World War II, Japan faced severe shortages of strategic materials like aluminum. To cope, some Tabbys were manufactured with wooden replacements for less-critical metal parts, including rudders, stabilizers, and ailerons. An all-wood variant, the L2D5, was also prepared for production.
Viking1066
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B-24s production line at Fort Worth and left line USN PB4Y-1 Liberators REDD
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Boeing B-17G Fortress 8AF 388BG B in preparation for a mission ASBIZ
Not sure about what you say-Wiki is notorious for factual errors. I found this link japl2d - Dan Rather covered Japan News Stories
"The L2D variants were fitted with a variety of Kinsei Engines ranging from (models 43 to 62) 1000hp, 1350hp and to 1560hp on the later wooden models."
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Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Cool!
MiTasol
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says wiki is a suspect source so not always correct but I have seen other sources that say only a small number of L2D4 aircraft had wood components. That does not necessarily mean wiki's 20 aircraft is correct That Dan Rather site is interesting but again does not say any L2D5 aircraft were completed.
From Japanese aircraft of the Pacific war by Rene Francillon, First edition. IN MEMORIAM. I do not have a copy of the 1987 edition
From Japanese aircraft of the Pacific war by Rene Francillon, First edition. IN MEMORIAM. I do not have a copy of the 1987 edition
Viking1066
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IJN Hiryu with Nakajima B5N1 on deck June 1940
Viking1066
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K5Y2 Kasamigaura Kokutai ALTH
Viking1066
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Kawasaki Ki-61-II being built in factory 1943 REDD
Viking1066
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A Vought F4U-1D Corsair aboard USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), 6 May 1945 NAVS
Viking1066
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B-24J Liberator 7AF 30BG38BS Bomb Baby Kwajalein Marshall Islands 2nd April 1944 ASBIZ
Nice shots!
There is a picture of one on a junk heap in the book:
Meatballs and Dead Birds: A Photographic Survey of Destroyed Japanese Aircraft in World War II
Book by James P. Gallagher
MiTasol
Captain
Clarify please L2D4 with wood parts or L2D5 with wood fuselage and wings?
Viking1066
Major
K5Y1 Kasamigaura Kokutai ALTH
Viking1066
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Japanese naval pilot Hiroshi Shinjo posing in front of an A6M3 Zero of Konoike Kokutai (tail code コウ-191), a training unit FACB
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